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• I would have handled it differently than the mayor of Baltimore, that's for sure. I think it's a mistake to say, hey, guys, you can pillage the city for a while and we'll let that go, and we'll be sort of standing back. I think it's also important to know some of the underlying causes of why there's unease in our country.

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  Country, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

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  Government, Usa, Businessman

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• If you are accused of being associated with terrorism, which could mean you are an Arab- American and you've sent e-mails to a relative in the Middle East, you should get your day in court, and I think you should get a lawyer and a trial, and I think most Americans agree to that.

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  Mean, Thinking, Middle East

  "Sen. Rand Paul on top congressional issues; pivotal moment in the battle over gay marriage". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2013.

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• We didn't create ISIS - ISIS created themselves, but we will stop them, and one of the ways we stop them is by not funding them, and not arming them.

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  Isis, Way, Funding

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.

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  War, Rights, Independence

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I would have never released the sanctions [for Iran] before there was consistent evidence of compliance.

  Rand Paul

  Iran, Sanctions, Consistent

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on [gay] marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

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  Gay, Government, Church

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I think we ought to quit sending [help] to countries that burn our flag.

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  Country, Thinking, Flags

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Benjamin Netanyahu said that ultimately, they will be stronger when they're independent. My position is exactly the same. We shouldn't borrow money from China to send it anywhere, but why don't we start with eliminating aid to our enemies.

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  Independent, Enemy, Stronger

  Rand Paul during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2015.

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• We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.

  Rand Paul

  Dollars, Projects, Minutes

  GOP Debate, www.washingtonpost.com. August 06, 2015.

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• The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base - get independent voters and voters who haven't been voting for your party to come to your party.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Independent, Winning

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I love the Mexican people; I respect the Mexican leaders - but the leaders are much sharper, smarter and more cunning than our [American] leaders.

  Rand Paul

  People, Mexican, Leader

  Source: time.com

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• I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are.

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  Gun, Thinking, Law

  "Meet the Press". www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2015.

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• ISIL is not the JV team. I cannot stress enough that there's a terrorist army in Syria and Iraq that wants to attack the homeland and we're not doing anything about it. So how do you defeat the ideology? Build up others? You reject Rand Paul.

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  Stress, Team, Army

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• This flirtation with isolationism in the Republican party is over. It's giving way to a more muscular foreign policy than I've been advocating. But I'm also advocating building up others. Build a small schoolhouse in Afghanistan to help a poor young girl have a say about her children will destroy the ideology more than a bomb.

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  Girl, Children, Party

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The source of the problem is in Syria. Raqqa is the headquarters of ISIL, which is a lethal terrorist organization, now army. If you don't go after them over there, they're going to hit us over here, and there's no substitute for that in my view.

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  Army, Views, Organization

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Gun control is not part of a strategy to defeat radical Islam or take ISIL down. However it is a problem back here at home. A million people have been adjudicated a danger to themselves or to others at the state court level.

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  Home, Gun, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I would pay to have those adjudications enrolled into the federal background system so we could detect people who are mentally ill before they buy a gun. That is a real problem.

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  Real, Gun, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The question is, how do we keep America safe from terrorism? [Donald]Trump says we ought to close that Internet thing. The question really is, what does he mean by that? Like they do in North Korea? Like they do in China?

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  Mean, Korea, America

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

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  Thinking, Freedom Of Speech, Religion

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I think that by arming the allies of ISIS, the Islamic rebels against [Bashar] Assad, that we created a safe space or made that space bigger for ISIS to grow.

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  Islamic, Thinking, Isis

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• When we toppled [Muammar] Gadhafi in Libya, I think that was a mistake. I think ISIS grew stronger, we had a failed state, and we were more at risk.

  Rand Paul

  Mistake, Thinking, Isis

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I think those who have wanted regime [of Bashar Assad] change have made a mistake.

  Rand Paul

  Mistake, Thinking, Regimes

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• Is Donald Trump a serious candidate? The reason I ask this is, if you're going to close the Internet, realize, America, what that entails. That entails getting rid of the First amendment, ok? It's no small feat.

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  America, Firsts, Serious

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of. It would defy every norm that is America.

  Rand Paul

  America, Realizing, Conventions

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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